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SOCY 100 Perspectives in Sociology Units: 3.00
This course introduces students to foundational and contemporary perspectives in Sociology. Students will learn to develop and use their sociological imagination. Major classical sociological perspectives are explored and then questioned and challenged. We focus on critical analysis, anti-oppressive frameworks, and inclusive pedagogy, to develop a more comprehensive sociological understanding. Different perspectives are applied to culture, social structure, social institutions, social control, inequality, and resistance. Sociological methods, methodologies, and research tools are introduced.
Learning Hours: 120 (24 Lecture, 12 Tutorial, 84 Private Study)
Requirements: Prerequisite None.
Exclusion SOCY 122/6.0.
Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Transcend 鈥渆veryday thinking鈥� about the social world and develop a 鈥渟ociological imagination鈥�.
- Define and critically discuss the fundamental ideas that have shaped sociology as a discipline.
- Critically examine the ways that sociology has been challenged by interdisciplinary thinkers.
- Identify and explain new perspectives that reframe traditional sociological thinking.
- Develop a sociological understanding of social structures, social institutions, and culture.
- Identify central issues related to social and structural inequalities, including the impact of racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, classism, and ableism on peoples' lives.
- Use intersectionality as an analytical tool.
- Be introduced to the methods, methodologies, and research tools that are used in the discipline of sociology.
- Develop tools to read peer-reviewed articles understand the main arguments developed within them.
- Learn how to discuss and grapple with readings with peers.